A gift and birthday memory that remembers each person's tastes once
Asked for by a person with a large family on r/SomebodyMakeThis (Spanish-language post) · original source · more from r/SomebodyMakeThis
Keeping up with many relatives' birthdays and what they like is a chore, and gift apps ask you to retype interests each time. Store a birthday and a few interests per person, get a reminder ahead of time, and see a handful of gift ideas with links without re-entering anything.
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- Done for one weekend
- You add each person once with their birthday and a few interests, get a reminder before the day, and see gift ideas built from what you saved, without retyping anything.
- Suggested shape
- Web app that keeps the data on your own device
- In scope
- Add a person once: name, birthday, a few interests or likes, and notes such as sizes or things they already have.
- A list of upcoming birthdays, soonest first, with how many days are left.
- Reminders ahead of each birthday. The simplest version is a calendar file with a yearly event and an alert a week before, added to the calendar people already use.
- For each person, a handful of gift ideas made from their saved interests, each a link to a search on a shop or site of your choice. Nothing needs retyping.
- Optional, if there's time
- Record what you gave each year, so you don't repeat a gift.
- Reminders by email, which needs an account and a server.
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